Peace: Try One More Time

Sometimes, even the people that we love the most - the people that may be the closest to us - can be that ones to unintentionally discourage us without realizing it.

We know it is easy for those who don't care for us or those who don't love us to be jealous or be haters and discourage us because they want to see us fail. They want to see us quit. They don't have the faith in us that we can succeed and are quite honestly a bit jealous that we are trying and a bit envious that we might succeed so much so that they would rather we wouldn't. Those people are usually easy. Most of us can blow those people off and actually become more stubborn just to show them that we can do it!

While that may be true for those who love us and care for us the most as well - it is also true that their words also have the deepest impact on us as well because we genuinely care about what they think and how they feel in regard to what we are doing and what decisions we are making.

While people we love often say things with good intentions and out of "love", sometimes their protection and "fear" can block us from our purpose God has in store for us. We know that whatever we are lacking, He can do through us and we are able to accomplish more than we ever thought possible. In every day and in every moment, God reaches into our life with his Hand of grace (blessings He wants to give us even though we don't deserve it) to help us through all that we face.

We can make mistakes, we may not be perfect; but if we have prayed for guidance and we have been given divine guidance we need to have faith and trust that God has our back and step out in that faith knowing that what we are lacking, God will take over and handle. God's grace has helped shape who and what we are. God's goodness is working within us to be a servant of God to fulfill His purpose and fulfill things we never though possible because He is with us and we are walking in Faith! Hope is a promise - a gift from God. So when the world starts to tell you that you can't - YOU LET HOPE TELL YOU TO TRY AGAIN BECAUSE YOU CAN!!!

"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." Romans 12:2